Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT)

Our Plan for Fall 2020

How are we helping you teach fully online courses? What does face-to-face teaching look like during a pandemic?

What We're Doing

Online Instructor Certification

Saint Mary’s is ensuring all of its instructors are certified to provide an excellent education online.

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Canvas Migration

Saint Mary’s has chosen Canvas as its single Learning Management System, and the fun is just beginning.

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News and Resources

More CardinalFlex Workshops: Virtual Attendance and Trauma-Informed Teaching

Aug 3, 2020

CELT is planning two workshops this week targeted primarily at Winona faculty. One is on dealing with virtual attendance and the other is on trauma-informed teaching.

Complete Canvas migration schedule announced

Jul 28, 2020

The Learning Management System (LMS) Task Force has finalized its proposed migration schedule for all university programs from Blackboard and Engage to Canvas. Meetings with program directors who manage the first set of program courses selected for migration in August will occur this week. “Migration” is the initial process of copying a course from Blackboard or Engage and importing it into Canvas.

How will we know what students are learning in Fall 2020?

Jul 28, 2020

Exams and quizzes have been part of higher education for centuries. It’s not easy to break old habits. But they have well-known weaknesses that make them hard to recommend in a pandemic situation.

Canvas Kickoff Timeline Announced

Jul 14, 2020

The Learning Management System (LMS) Task Force met with the Canvas implementation team on July 13 to officially kick off our relationship and make plans for a fall rollout.

Planning to CardinalFlex in Fall 2020

Jul 7, 2020

Note that this post related primarily to the Undergraduate College in Winona.

It’s not fall yet, but we want to make sure you have all of the resources you need to be prepared for a potentially very strange fall semester. At CELT, the part of that package we think we can help with is thinking through a face-to-face course that might involve some students attending remotely, students completing assignments remotely, minimizing large groups, and planning for scenarios where in-person meetings are no longer possible.